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What you need

- To use the workflow that I'm going to describein this course, you will need a copy ofAdobe Photoshop Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile,and a Creative Cloud subscription.Creative Cloud is Adobe's cloud service,and it won't interfere with other clouds that you might use,like iCloud, Dropbox, the Microsoft cloud, and so on.They can all coexist.The Creative Cloud is how Lightroom Mobilewill pass files to your other mobile devicesas well as back to your Mac or Windows computer,and vice versa.Note that you can run Lightroom Mobilewithout a Creative Cloud subscription,but your copy will lack some featuresthat we're going to look at here, such as raw editing,the linear and radial gradient tools,and the ability to sync images between multiple devices.

At the time of this shooting, Adobe offers a veryaffordable subscription that gets you Lightroom,Lightroom Mobile, Photoshop, and the Creative Cloud.If you don't need any other Adobe apps,this is a great way to go, and a fantastic deal,as far as I'm concerned.This being a mobile workflow course,we're going to be working with iOS and Androidsmartphones and tablets.You don't have to have both a phone and a tablet,but you want to be sure that the devices you do havemeet the minimum requirements of Lightroom Mobile.You can find those requirements on Adobe's website.If you're planning on shooting with a real cameraand then editing on your mobile device,then you may need a couple of extra gizmos.

We'll cover what those are as they're needed.This course also assumes that youhave some experience with Lightroom.I'm not going to explain the program'sbasic features or toolset.Throughout this course, I'll be referring tothe desktop version of Lightroom, and when I say that,I really just mean the Mac or Windows versionrunning on a desktop or laptop computer.Also note that as of the time of this shooting,there are feature and interface differences betweenthe iPhone and iPad versions of Lightroom Mobileand between the iOS and Android versions.We'll be covering those as they come up.

Finally, this course assumes that you have an understandingof the difference between shooting and editing in rawversus shooting and editing in jpeg.With the workflow I'm going to show you here,you're going to be able to shoot in raw on your cameraor phone and edit those raw files on any of your devices.You're going to be able to stay all raw all the time.If you don't know why you would want that,then check out my course,Learn Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode.

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Released

3/30/2017

In this course, photographer, author, and educator Ben Long details a variety of workflow strategies for raw-format photography and mobile devices. He demonstrates wireless and USB techniques you can use to transfer raw images from a camera to a mobile device, and then shows how to process and export the images using Lightroom for mobile. Workflows for iOS and for Android systems are each covered. Additionally, Ben shows how to organize image by taking advantage of features like catalog, ratings, and flags.